The NTEU is today serving universities across Australia with a log of claims that has at its core a 27% pay increase over three years, greater job security, the restoration of rights lost under the Coalition's funding rules, and the regulation of workloads.
In what's believed to be the first prosecution of its kind, Griffith University is seeking a $4,000 fine against a lecturer for failing to give sufficient notice of resignation.
The NSW Supreme Court has found that a redundancy offer Tooheys made by letter to six brewery workers was a binding contract, despite the company over-calculating their entitlements by a total of $640,000.
The AMWU yesterday outlined a plan for modernising manufacturing industry awards that would reduce 110 industrial instruments to a single award it has dubbed “MIA 2010”.
An employer discriminated against an injured worker by excluding him from a redundancy or relocation offer despite its claims he was unfit for the requirements of the job, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has ruled.
The award modernisation process has created a rift between the two major health unions, after the ACTU supported a bid by the nursing union to create a modern national nursing award.
The services sector is at risk of losing 850,000 jobs, or nearly one in ten positions, offshore over the next two decades, according to a report commissioned by Australia's service unions - the ASU, CPSU, FSU and the CEPU.
Average salaries rose by 4.7% in 2007-08, survey finds; Workplace Ombudsman releases new fact sheets; and Jetstar recruits 15 pilots a month, says Dixon.
Employer peak groups yesterday told the AIRC that the model award flexibility clause canvassed by the ACTU was a complex, rigid throwback to the early 1990s, while unions claimed the employer flexibility proposal was "worse than AWAs".
